Thread: Excellent Clock Version 8800GT Akimbo (One gigabyte DDRIII PCI-E)

EVGA’s 8800GT Akimbo Superclocked Edition is a difficult animal to categorise. It is the best able of EVGA’s all-encompassing 8800GT agency but it is inferior in blueprint to seven added 8-Series EVGA cards. Despite its character crisis the agenda is able abundant in avant-garde 3-D applications and is well-priced for admittance in a account gaming PC.


In agreement of blueprint and performance, this agenda is alveolate adjoin cards like the ATI and — which accept a cogent advantage in agreement of price. It will be difficult for the 8800GT to absolve its price, abnormally because it’s a archetypal that is alpha to be abolished by newer mid-range cards.


But if you are dead-fix on an 8800 GT for whatever reason, this card is one of the best out there. Like ASUS’ it arrives factory overclocked. This special model’s graphics core sits at an effective 720MHz, a important jump from the 600MHz stock frequency. Memory velocities are also aroused to a 2000MHz ceiling from the actual 1800MHz. These velocities are superior still to EVGA’s other 8-Series cards (apart from its top-of-the-line Ultra Special Version, which has 2200MHz memory).




Contempt these impressive clock velocities the 8800 GT Akimbo Super clocked Edition only requires a single 6-pin power connector, so you would not require a beefed-up power supply to function this card.


More abstruse abracadabra — the 8800 GT’s processor has a absolute of 112 beck processors, which is 16 up on the GTS and 16 beneath the GTX and Ultra. Let’s put this into perspective, admitting — EVGA’s latest GTX 280 HC16 cartoon agenda has an immense 240 beck processors, abrogation the 8800 GT Akimbo Superclocked Edition in the dust. Similarly, the 8800 GT is bedridden in agreement of anamnesis throughput, with a 256-bit anamnesis bus compared to the 8800 GTX’s 320-bit bus.


We did see some acceptable after-effects in our benchmarks, though, with best avant-garde amateur advancement a playable anatomy rate. It blitzed DirectX 9 tests (as you had apprehend any contempo agenda to) and handled DirectX 10 tests acceptably as well. A Half-Life 2 analysis at best affection settings and a resolution of 1920x1200 averaged 135.5 frames per second, while for the graphically-taxing F.E.A.R. the analysis boilerplate was 81.0fps.